The Gilded Age
By: by Diane Telgen
Series: Defining moments
Publisher: Omnigraphics
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780780812383
Subjects: Politics and government; Sources; Juvenile literature; Biography; History
Description: "Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic forces that transformed the United States during the nineteenth century from a farming society to an urban, industrial one dominated by powerful industrialists and their vast corporate empires. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: America's postwar expansion; title: The rise of the robber barons; title: Captains of industry; title: Gilded age politics, reformers, and regulators; title: The rise of labor; title: The 1890s : decade of upheaval; title: Legacy of the gilded age; title: William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) : populist leader and three-time Democratic candidate for president; title: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) : steel magnate and philanthropist; title: Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) : Democratic president of the United States; title: Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) : founder of the American Railway Union and the Socialist Party of America; title: Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) : founder and president of the American Federation of Labor; title: Jay Gould (1836-1892) : gilded age financier and railroad owner; title: Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853-1933) : reformist speaker and politician; title: J.P. Morgan (1837-1913)  : leading banker and financier of the gilded age; title: Terrence V. Powderly (1849-1924) : Leader of the Knights of Labor; title: John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) : founder of the Standard Oil Company; title: Mark Twain describes the get-rich-quick mining culture; title: The glitter of gilded age high society; title: Exposing the price-fixing schemes of the "lords of industry"; title: An anarchist protests his Haymarket death sentence; title: Andrew Carnegie's "gospel of wealth"; title: "The problem of the children in New York City; title: The Sherman Antitrust Act; title: The populists articulate their principles; title: William Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech; title: A second gilded age? : the income gap says yes; title: A new gilded age? : living standards say no; title: Important people, places, and terms; title: Chronology.